So out of touch it’s beyond belief

A couple of Fridays ago, I was at Elm Park with my young son. We were sitting close to the playground area. A man came by with his small dog. He proceeded to let his dog off-leash, and sicced his dog on any squirrel in a thirty-foot radius.

The dog was running loose all over a play area for children, teeth bared, and didn’t come back to his owner on the first, second, or third call.

Later on that same day, we were walking to the Common. On the sidewalk, a man had a muzzled pit bull on a leash. The dog had a big grin on his face — despite the muzzle — and seemed well-socialized.

I was extremely concerned about the first dog — all 10 pounds of him — and not at all concerned with the much-larger pit bull.

Because dog behavior is largely about the owners.

So, no, Councilor Eddy, it is not the MSPCA who “has been so out of touch on this it’s beyond belief.”

It’s the vast majority of last term’s City Council, who voted for a deeply flawed ordinance.

i want food vendors. it might bring good things to downtown worcester. Panhandling though, needs to be shut down. I know some of these panhandlers, through my time as a homeless person, and some of them are NOT “homeless” they just don’t have enough money after rent and utilities for smokes, booze, and whatever else they can’t get on food stamps.